Nikolai Mashkin
Nikolai Alexandrovich Mashkin was a Soviet scholar of Roman history. Mashkin authored The History of Ancient Rome, which was translated into several languages, and The Principate of Augustus. Its Origin and Social Essence. In 1950 Mashkin received the State Prize of the USSR.
Mashkin was born in the village of Sokolki, present Bugulminsky District in Russia. Having finished a school in Bugulma, he studied at the Faculty of History and Philosophy of the Samara State University and at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the Moscow University. In 1938 Mashkin received his doctorate. Mashkin extensively studied the history of Roman provinces, particularly Africa. He also authored several works on circumcellions.
